[Zope] Continuing Woe with Win98 (but Zope V1.10.3 works!)

[Capesius, Alan]

are you running any kind of proxy or gateway software on the box?
8080 is a common port for proxies.

FrontPage PWS also uses port 8080.


>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: Paul Browning [mailto:paul.browning@bristol.ac.uk]
>>>Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 4:32 PM 
>>>To: zope@zope.org
>>>Subject: [Zope] Continuing Woe with Win98 (but Zope V1.10.3 works!)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>A while back I reported a problem with Zope under Win98. The
>>>symptoms are that everything looks OK in the MS-DOS command
>>>window but that when you try and browse to http://localhost:8080
>>>then nothing happens.
>>>
>>>A number of people made useful suggestions including making sure
>>>the was an entry in the Windoze LMHOSTS file but to no avail.
>>>
>>>As Zope did _once_ work on this particular PC I went back to
>>>Zope 2.1.6 as I had a hunch that this was version I had originally
>>>tried (the problems on started when I upgraded to a later version).
>>>
>>>However, no luck.
>>>
>>>Then, just for the hell of it, I installed Zope 1.10.3. IT WORKS
>>>(over port 9673)!
>>>
>>>Zope V1 isn't alot of use to me, but I thought I'd report
>>>my findings in case it causes any flashes of deduction 
>>>amongst Windows
>>>gurus out there which might lead to a resolution of the problem.
>>>
>>>For the record, the M$ Personal Web Server (or whatever it's called),
>>>works just fine - browsing to http://localhost does what you'd
>>>expect.
>>>
>>>Cheers.
>>>
>>>Paul
>>>
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>>> The Library, Tyndall Avenue, Univ. of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1TJ, UK
>>>     E-mail: paul.browning@bristol.ac.uk  URL: http://www.bris.ac.uk/
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